(Prensa Latina) Former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva proposed to the US President Joe Biden that his country donate to Brazil part of its today´s Covid-19 vaccine surplus.
‘I do know that the United States has stocks of vaccines and it is not going to use them all. Perhaps these vaccine doses could be donated to Brazil or to poorer countries that cannot afford to pay,’ Lula told CNN´s journalist Christiane Amanpour.
In this case, Lula commented on the possibility of donating 10 million AstraZeneca vaccine doses that cannot be used in the United States.
Posted on local journalistic media, news portals and social networks, Lula said that he would like to recommend that Biden call for a G20 meeting.
‘It is urgent to call for the main world leaders and put on the table one single issue: vaccine, vaccine, vaccine,’ Lula insisted.
He also stated that he address the request to Joe Biden, because he does not believe in the Jair Bolsonaro administration. ‘Nor could I ask Donald Trump (US President through 2020), but Biden is a new breath for democracy,’ he remarked.
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